Git 2.45 Released With Initial SHA1/SHA256 Interoperability & Reftable Support
Git 2.45 is out today as an important step forward for this widely-used, open-source distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more

openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC Brings Cockpit Web Based Server Management
The openSUSE Leap 15.6 based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 has graduated out of its beta phase and is onto the release candidate period. Notable with openSUSE Leap 15.6 is now having nice support for the Cockpit web-based server management solution… ⌘ Read more

Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” Performance Improves With Linux 6.9
As part of my Linux 6.9 benchmarking I’ve been trying out many hardware combinations and overall seeing nice performance out of this kernel that will debut as stable in the next 2~3 weeks. AMD EPYC 4th Gen performance is boosted, Intel Xeon Max sees some AI improvements, and as shown in some prior Intel Core Ultra performance benchmarks is enhanced as well. Here are some more benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 “Meteor Lake” performanc … ⌘ Read more

Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK
Merged last week to Mesa 24.2-devel was an important merge request for the Broadcom V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the modern Raspberry Pi single board computers… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Isn’t Yet Recommending GNOME’s VRR Option
While GNOME landed experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in GNOME 46 that is used by the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical isn’t yet encouraging users to test out this option… ⌘ Read more

Linux Support On The Way For The ASUS ROG Raikiri Controller
Linux driver support is forthcoming for the ASUS ROG Raikiri gaming controller… ⌘ Read more

xconsole 1.1 Released - Preparing For Post-Y2038 Support, 18 Years After v1.0
Longtime X.Org maintainer Alan Coopersmith with Oracle released a new version of xconsole, the program that displays an X11 window containing the messages sent to /dev/console. This xconsole 1.1 release comes 18 years after the xconsole 1.0 release… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 24.10 Is The “Oracular Oriole”
For those keeping track of Ubuntu’s animal-themed codenames, Ubuntu 24.10 is now confirmed to be the Oracular Oriole… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.9-rc6 Released With This Kernel Looking “Pretty Normal”
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.9 as it works toward its stable release by mid-May… ⌘ Read more

AMD Enabling “Fast CPPC” For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there’s been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series p … ⌘ Read more

AMD Enabling “Fast CPPC” For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there’s been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series p … ⌘ Read more

More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes
On top of prior DRM-Next pull requests for the AMD kernel graphics driver working on next-gen GPU support along with fixes and other low-level improvements, on Friday another batch of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in mid-May… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs
A commit made to the Linux kernel three weeks ago accidentally broke the default CPU security mitigations for non-x86 CPUs. With code sent in today via x86/urgent ahead of tonight’s Linux 6.9-rc6 release, that accidental default breakage is being addressed… ⌘ Read more

Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software… ⌘ Read more

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs… ⌘ Read more

Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
The uutils’ Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more

Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs
It was just a few days ago that Llamafile 0.8 released with LLaMA 3 and Grok support along with faster F16 performance. Now this project out of Mozilla for self-contained, easily re-distributable large language model (LLM) deployments is out with a new release… ⌘ Read more

GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems… ⌘ Read more

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets
KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week… ⌘ Read more

Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more

New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time
Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink’s start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising… ⌘ Read more

GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute
Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10… ⌘ Read more

Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license… ⌘ Read more